Cicero, Rhetoric, and Empire - Steel, C.E.W. (, C.E.W. Steel is Lecturer in Classics, University of Glasgow)

This study of Cicero's political oratory and Roman imperialism in the late Republic offers new readings of neglected speeches. C.E.W. Steel examines the role and capacities of political oratory and puts Cicero's attitude to empire, with its limitations and weaknesses, in the context of wider debates among his contemporaries on the problems of empire.